The Boston Red Sox placed first baseman Triston Casas on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a left rib strain.

The Red Sox recalled catcher Tyler Heineman from Triple-A Worcester in a corresponding move.

Casas, 24, felt discomfort in his rib area during his first at-bat in Boston's 4-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday and left the game.

He has six home runs and 10 RBIs in 22 games this season.

Third baseman Bobby Dalbec replaced Casas at first base in the bottom of the first inning Saturday, and Pablo Reyes took over for Dalbec at third for the short-handed Red Sox.

Boston is already managing several injuries to every-day players. Third baseman Rafael Devers (knee) and outfielder Tyler O'Neill (concussion) did not play in the win but could return Tuesday against the Cleveland Guardians, manager Alex Cora said before Saturday's game.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Houston Astros right-hander Cristian Javier will be placed on the 15-day injured list due to neck discomfort, manager Joe Espada told reporters Sunday.

Right-hander Spencer Arrighetti, who is 0-2 with an 11.57 ERA this season, will be recalled to take Javier's spot in the rotation, Espada said.

Espada made the announcement after Javier had been scratched from Sunday's start against the host Washington Nationals because of the ailment.

Right-hander Hunter Brown will start in Javier's place Sunday in the rubber match of the three-game series.

Javier, 27, has a 2-0 record with a 1.54 ERA while working at least five innings in all four starts this season. He has allowed no more than two earned runs in each start.

Brown, 25, is 0-3 with a 10.54 ERA in four starts this season. He won his lone career start against Washington on June 13, 2023, after scattering four hits over seven scoreless innings.

Field Level Media contributed to this report.

Olympic champion comes out on top in brilliant battle and puts herself in pole position for Paris, while Mhairi Maclennan finishes as the best of British on 26.2-mile debut

Peres Jepchirchir came out on top in the game of poker that was the elite womens race at the London Marathon, sprinting away in the closing stages to break the womens-only world record.

The Olympic champions victory, in 2:16:16, also strengthened her hand in the fight to be selected for the Kenyan team bound for Paris this summer. Her patience paid off as she beat Mary Keitanys mark of 2:17:01 from 2017 and also set in London.

Behind Jepchipchir came Ethiopian world record-holder Tigist Assefa, who was unable to follow her rivals race-deciding kick, and finished in 2:16:23, one second ahead of 2021 London winner Joyciline Jepkosgei.

On her marathon debut, Mhairi Maclennan impressed by coming 11^th in 2:29:15 to finish as best of the British womens elite field. Becky Briggs was 12^th in 2:35:25 and Rachel Hodgkinson 13^th in 2:36:49.

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Kenyan thwarts his rivals bid for glory, while Brits complete the top four and book Olympics places

An eventful mens elite race at the London Marathon resulted in a surprise winner, a legendary figure coming close to the win he so craved, and two British athletes creating history.

Victory went to Kenyas Alexander Mutiso Manyao, making his London debut, after he won a compelling duel with the great Kenenisa Bekele to break the tape in 2:04:01. The Ethiopian had the consolation of breaking his world M40 record with 2:04:15 in second.

The identity of the third-placed athlete caught the attention of the home crowd, too, as Emile Cairess stamped his ticket for the Paris Olympics thanks to his personal best of 2:06:46, which puts him second on the British all-time lists. Mo Farahs 2:05:11 remains the national record but it is surely living on borrowed time.

To add further to the cause for celebration, Cairesss fellow Brit and friend Mahamed Mahamed also produced a superb run to come fourth with 2:07:05, making him the third-fastest Briton ever and also making sure he will be announced on the Olympic team on Monday morning. It is the first time two British men have finished in the London Marathons top four since Hugh Jones and Kevin Forster in 1988.

Marc Scott finished 11th in 2:11:19 on his marathon debut, while Callum Hawkins was 16th in 2:17:34.

The British success came shortly after the conclusion of a remarkable race for first place which, at one stage, had looked like it might go the way of the 41-year-old Bekele.

This was his sixth time in London and his previous best had been second place in 2017 and in the pre-event press conference the former 5000m and 10,000m Olympic champion had spoken about his deep desire to finally taste victory and perhaps even prove a point to the Ethiopian Olympic selectors.

Having been sat in a pack with New York champion and race favourite Tamirat Tola who led the field through halfway in 61:29 as well as Manyao, plus Ethiopians Mikesa Mengesha and Dawit Wolde, Bekele decided to shake things up a little through mile 19.

He looked to be enjoying himself as he surged to the front, a move that resulted in Tola soon being dropped and, try as he might, Mengesha could not live the with the pace either. It was a two-way fight.

Bekele appeared to be turning back the clock and finding the kind of form that took him to a marathon best of 2:01:41 five years ago. Yet Munyao is no slouch either, having won the Prague Marathon last year with 2:03:11, and refused to budge, the competitors matching each other stride for stride.

As the closing 2km approached, it was the 27-year-old who began to edge ahead and create a gap that Bekele was ultimately unable to bridge.

Munyao admitted to having felt fearful of his opponent but the former world u18 3000m bronze medallist said: At around 40K is where I thought I could win. My focus was good and I felt good. This is the biggest marathon of my career and it means a lot. I think many good things are yet to come.

He may well now find an Olympic marathon in his future. The odds are against the same applying to Bekele, though he is clearly not done with the marathon just yet.

I was very close [to victory], he said. My lower back hurt. I am happy, but a bit disappointed. I think I have two to three more years of marathons.

Behind that battle, the other members of the leading pack were going backwards and being reeled in by Cairess, who had been on British record schedule in the early stages of the race but, in the blustery conditions, dialled the pace back to achieve the primary objective of securing his Olympic place.

He hit the halfway mark in 62:50 and looking comfortable. Though he was aware of going past some opponents on the run-in, the 26-year-old only discovered he had made the podium just as he was finishing.

He and Mahamed have raced with each other on the domestic and international scene through the age groups but now both, as well as Phil Sesemann, will set about plotting the British Olympic challenge.

Mahameds run was all the more remarkable that he had been observing Ramadan and had to work his training schedule around fasting. That often meant fitting sessions in during the early morning or late at night.

Both he and Cairess will now prepare for Paris together with Phil Sesemann, who had already secured his Olympic place.

This really is a dream come true and I just cant stop smiling, said Mahamed.

[British distance running] is just getting better and better, and we [himself and Emile Cairess] have a few more years at the top.

Full-back Kayleigh Powell says despite recent results Wales "need to remember how good a team we are".

They are in desperate need of a response when they take on France at Cardiff Arms Park on Sunday.

Powell makes her first Wales start since the Rugby World Cup and is one of seven changes from last weekend's disappointing 36-5 defeat in Cork.

"Obviously we were really gutted after the Ireland game, but that has spurred us on even more to give it everything against France," Powell told BBC Sport Wales.

Wales are back to being underdogs as they go up against a French side once again poised to challenge England for the title, but Powell says that is a tag they are comfortable with.

"Going in as underdogs relieves a little bit of pressure on us, but we've got a lot of pressure on ourselves to perform better than we did against Ireland," she said.

"We're not expected to win, all the pressure is on France, but we've definitely still got to turn up which is obviously what we didn't do against Ireland."

After what head coach Ioan Cunningham called an "honest" review this week, Powell says they have gone back to basics.

"I think we need to go back to getting our confidence and back ourselves," she said.

"We need to remember how good a team we are when we're all on the right page and giving each other 100%."

Powell and wing Courtney Keight are back in the starting XV after recovering from long-term anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injures.

"Rehab is never the best thing to do, you play rugby to play rather than be in the gym, but it's part of the process unfortunately," Powell said.

"It's so exciting to be back now and be ready to rip into France."

Powell, like Jasmine Joyce, is on a hybrid contract with the Welsh Rugby Union and GB Sevens.

And despite her lengthy spell on the sidelines, Powell hopes to impress selectors for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

"It's something I've always dreamt of as a kid, so to actually have that opportunity and be close to it is even more exciting," Powell said.

"I'm just going to work hard and keep pushing to try and get in."

NEW YORK -- Ryan Garcia's fitness to fight was questioned in the lead-up to his bout Saturday night with Devin Haney, a turbulent promotion that was highlighted by Garcia's erratic comments.

Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) was a major underdog and was virtually counted out entering the fight. His blinding, powerful left hook turned the tide, however, as Garcia scored three knockdowns to pull the upset via majority decision victory at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

One judge scored the bout 112-112 but was overruled by scores of 114-110 and 115-109 for Garcia. However, Garcia wasn't eligible to win Haney's WBC junior welterweight title after weighing in at 143.2 pounds on Friday for the 140-pound contest. The title will now become vacant.

Haney was a -900 favorite earlier in the week, according to ESPN BET, but closed at -575. Garcia pretended to drink a beer at Friday's weigh-in and paid Haney upward of $600,000, sources told ESPN, as part of the deal for the fight to proceed.

One day earlier, Garcia made a bet with Haney and agreed to pay him $500,000 for every pound he weighed in at above 140. Haney later said Garcia honored the bet, which would mean Garcia paid Haney a total of $1.5 million.

In the opening minute of Saturday night's fight, in a harbinger of what was to come, Garcia was the one who made Haney pay with a ripping left hook that rocked the champion.

Haney (31-1, 15 KOs), 25, quickly recuperated and went on to outbox Garcia over the next four rounds. He even wobbled Garcia in Round 3 with a right hand while Garcia boxed off the back foot and looked for another counter left hook that would change the fight.

Garcia, 25, found it in Round 7 as he floored Haney, the first time Haney has been on the canvas in 32 pro fights -- only Garcia didn't capitalize. Moments after the knockdown, as the crowd erupted, Garcia crushed Haney with a right hand on the break and was deducted one point by referee Harvey Dock.

What should have been a two-point advantage for Garcia was nullified.

It didn't matter.

Garcia floored Haney again in Round 10, this time with a tremendous right hand, the same punch he used to wobble Haney in Round 6.

The following round, Garcia landed his money punch again, a counter left hook that rolled Haney's eyes as he was launched backward. Somehow, Haney sprung back up, his cheeks badly swollen, his mouth bloody.

Garcia went for the finish, but Haney was able to stave him off and heard the final bell in one of the most surprising and dramatic fights in recent memory.

DENVER -- As much as the story of the Los Angeles Lakers' season has been centered on the team looking to make up for its flameout in the Western Conference finals a year ago to chase a championship, there's also been a personal redemption arc for point guard D'Angelo Russell.

However Saturday's 114-103 Game 1 loss to the Denver Nuggets, where Russell missed 13 of his final 16 shot attempts and scored 13 points, brought to mind some of his past struggles.

"D-Lo is a huge reason why we're here in the first place," Lakers coach Darvin Ham said afterward. "I'm not going to bail out on my player just because he's missing the shots that he normally makes. So, same shots were going in against New Orleans [in the play-in tournament] and other games that he's played in to help us get to this point. So, it just wasn't his night."

After seeing his role reduced throughout the four-game sweep by the Nuggets last year and losing his starting job before the closeout game, Russell re-signed with Los Angeles in the offseason. He survived the trade deadline without being dealt, and his play from early January through the end of the regular season was a true bright spot for a Lakers team that came into the first round having won 12 out of 15 games to secure the No. 7 seed.

His overall production has been night and day compared to the 6.3 points on 32% shooting (13% from 3) and 3.5 assists he put up against the Nuggets last May.

But his numbers on Saturday -- 30% shooting (6-for-20) and 11.1% from 3 (1-for-9) with 3 assists -- echoed that nightmare of a series for him.

"I mean, I can't be mad," Russell said. "I don't recall the last time I got 20 shots. So for me to get 20 good looks -- not 20 'good,' probably five or six of them were questionable. I know what I'm capable of. So, honestly, I'm excited. I'm excited about that."

Excitement would seem counterintuitive considering the Nuggets have now won nine straight games against the Lakers and host Game 2 on Monday at Ball Arena, where they tied for the second-best home record in the league during the regular season, going 33-8.

Yet Russell insisted on taking a pragmatic view.

"I just feel like sometimes the ball just don't fall," he said. "I was locked in on the details and the little things just to try to stay on the floor defensively and things like that. And you look up, your shots aren't falling. So, no love lost. Can't be upset about that one. Be ready for the next one."

Russell's shot was far from the only thing that failed the Lakers in the series opener. Denver dominated the Lakers on the boards, 49-40, and scored 18 points off 15 offensive rebounds (the Lakers mustered just eight second-chance points). The Nuggets also had half as many turnovers as the Lakers, six to 12, and outscored Los Angeles 14-8 following their opponent's miscues.

Anthony Davis, who led the Lakers with 32 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks but still saw the Nuggets outscore his team by 12 in the 45 minutes he played, said he will encourage Russell to keep his focus on the next opportunity.

"Just get ready for Game 2," Davis said. "We can't do anything about this. But you can do something about Game 2. We know what D-Lo brings to our team. Offensively, he can score, shoot the ball extremely well. Just got to do it."

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Inter Miami head coach Gerardo "Tata" Martino rued another addition to the team's lengthy injury list but said the team continued to meet its "objectives" after Lionel Messi scored twice and added an assist in Saturday's 3-1 win over Nashville SC at Chase Stadium.

Paraguayan midfielder Diego Gómez suffered an ankle lesion in the first half of the match, forcing him to exit the field on a stretcher. The extent of the injury remains unknown, but Martino confirmed Gómez traveled to the hospital to undergo exams.

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"What we saw was clearly a twisted ankle, but what we need to determine is if it's a common twist or if there's more gravity to it," Martino told a news conference. "This is what they are trying to discern right now [at the hospital].

"He was very hurt, the ankle was swollen, but we cannot make assumptions. The locker room reacted in the way they would with any hurt player, especially if he went down in the first half in a play without contact from another defender.

"It happened to us with Federico Redondo and his knee, Benjamin Cremaschi with his pubis and now Diego. We hope it's nothing serious."

Gómez now stands as the ninth player currently unavailable for Inter Miami due to injury, including Jordi Alba and Facundo Farias, leading Martino to once again lament Major League Soccer's roster restrictions.

"I would like to do this with a full roster," he said. "When a team has a player on a yellow, the logical thing would be to look to the bench for available players. Today, for some reason or another, we have seven or eight players out.

"In a league like MLS, that is so strict with roster rules, salary cap and academy players, we had to make certain movements to be able to count on [rookies] Yannick Bright and Leo Alfonso. It wasn't easy because we had to include them in the principal roster, and that involves having less money for other signings. This isn't an ease that the league grants, and we have to replace important players with two players we selected 60 days ago in a draft.

"I want to have all my players. The sensation is like I'm chasing after the carrot, 'next week we'll have everyone,' and Diego falls. 'Next week we'll have everyone,' and it's someone else. This is what's happening."

Despite those struggles, Miami sits top of the Supporters' Shield rankings, a far cry from last year when it missed out on the MLS playoffs.

"If all this happens, and we are accumulating 18 points, it doesn't matter to be first or second [in the league]. But the 18 points, which is a lot more than we managed this time last year, [means] we are meeting our objective of getting points so that the second half of the year is not as demanding and dramatic as 2023 when we won three or four consecutive games but we'd lose one and lose hope of the playoffs."

Miami has now recorded back-to-back victories, and Messi has nine goals and eight assists in nine games in all competitions so far this season.

Messi also laid on an assist for Sergio Busquets to celebrate his first goal for Miami since joining last July. The former Barcelona teammates connected on a corner to score the second goal of the night to put Miami ahead after conceding the opening goal in the second minute.

"I'm very happy to score and help the team," Busquets told reporters. "Leo provided a really great corner kick and it was a matter of millimeters for me, it was lucky for me to get on it and score to help the team.

"I'm very happy [to get the assist from Messi]. I'm very happy with all that his presence means on a club level and off the field. We need to keep working to keep meeting our objectives."

NEW YORK -- All season, the New York Knicks have gone as far as Jalen Brunson could carry them.

But when Brunson had an uncharacteristically off night against the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, his teammates were there to pick up the slack.

There was Josh Hart hitting a season-high four 3-pointers, including three in the final quarter. There was Brunson's backup, Deuce McBride, going for 21 points and finishing with a game-best plus-37. And there was Mitchell Robinson coming off the bench to grab seven of New York's 23 offensive rebounds.

They all played significant parts in New York's playoff-opening 111-104 victory.

"It's definitely encouraging," said Hart, who matched Brunson with a team-high 22 points. "We've been on his shoulders all season. And when he struggled, that's when we had to pick up.

"When your top dog is not playing well -- not shooting well, I didn't want to say not playing well -- you need other guys to pick it up for him, and that's what we did."

Brunson shot just 8 for 26 from the floor, including 1 of 6 from 3-point range, to go with seven rebounds, seven assists and five turnovers.

But on a night when he and the rest of the Knicks starters finished with negatives in the plus-minus column, it was the contributions from others -- and especially the bench -- that allowed New York to hold home-court advantage to begin this Battle of Interstate 95.

"They played phenomenal from the start to finish," Brunson said. "Whenever they were in they made plays. A credit to them for their preparation."

New York's starters struggled because Philadelphia generally was able to control the game when Joel Embiid was on the court. In his 37 minutes, Embiid had 29 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, and Philadelphia outscored the Knicks by 14.

In the other 11 minutes, though, it was a different story. New York won those minutes by a score of 29-8, largely powered by a bench unit featuring Bojan Bogdanovic (13 points), Robinson and McBride at the start of the second and fourth quarters.

"Well, we had another one of those second quarter starts where we didn't guard anybody," 76ers coach Nick Nurse said. "We had a hell of a first quarter. We come out to start the second quarter, and it is bang, bang, bang. The quarter is off to a bad start."

Still, even after those struggles -- and with Embiid on the bench dealing with the aftereffects of an injury scare to his knee at the end of the first half -- the 76ers still were leading in the fourth quarter. But then Hart, left wide-open from 3-point range, buried three from deep to help New York surge into the lead for good.

"It felt great," Hart said of making those shots. "The last two games of the regular season, our season series, Nick's game plan was just to play off me and dare me to make shots. I knew that as soon as they won it [the play-in game]. And I knew it would be the same thing with [Erik Spoelstra] if Miami won it. So that's something I knew I had to focus on.

"This whole week was just getting up shots, pre-practice, post-practice. Going back at night. Just getting up shots, getting up reps. So I knew it was going to be that way. Open shots. Fortunately I was able to knock them down."

As a result, New York escaped with a win to open this series in a game that, in many ways, conformed to the conventional wisdom heading into it. New York, one of the league's best rebounding teams, dominated the glass, gaining a 26-8 edge in second-chance points thanks to those 23 offensive rebounds. The Knicks also had a massive 42-7 advantage in bench scoring, a place Philadelphia routinely has been outgunned at after moving Kelly Oubre Jr. into the starting lineup full-time.

Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey, who had a game-high 33 points, was able to get to the rim at will thanks to his blazing speed, while Embiid, when he was on the court, was able to control the action even amid the issues with his left knee.

But on a night when the one unexpected thing happened -- Brunson struggling -- the rest of the Knicks ensured that wouldn't cost them home court.

"We need everyone," Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. "Tonight, it was the bench.

"You gotta win games different ways."

Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. said his teammates have had his back in recent days following the sentencing of his younger brother Coban Porter to six years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed a woman in Colorado last year.

The sentencing on Friday came just two days after another of Porter's younger brothers, Jontay Porter, was banned for life from the NBA amid a betting scandal.

"Definitely tried to compartmentalize, some bad and sad stuff happened to a couple of my brothers. But I got you know 15, 16 more brothers in here so I knew I had to be here for them and come in here and do my job and try to prepare to do it at a high level," Porter said Saturday night, after his Nuggets went up 1-0 in their first round series against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Michael Porter Jr. missed Nuggets' practice on Friday to testify on his brother's behalf at his hearing. Coban Porter had pleaded guilty back in February to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault as part of a plea agreement. According to The Denver Post, prosecutors on Friday said Coban Porter was speeding at the time of the crash and had a blood alcohol level of .19, more than twice the legal limit of .08.

Michael Porter Jr. said each of his teammates texted him and told him "that they got my back if I needed anything, they got me."

"To have these guys understand why I missed practice yesterday and just had my back has been big for me," he said.

Porter had a strong game in the 114-103 victory over L.A., scoring 19 points to go along with 8 rebounds in 38 minutes.

"It's a hard thing to do, but I think when you're on the court you don't think about it," Nuggets star Nikola Jokic said of Porter after the game. "That's why basketball is such a beautiful thing, that you don't think about nothing except what's going on on the floor. Before and after of course the stuff hits you, but we all reached out to him, it's a thing that of course family is the first thing but we are some kind of family too.

"Hopefully he's gonna find peace and be in a good spot mentally."

Porter has been with the Nuggets since they drafted him in 2018 out of Missouri. He missed the majority of his lone season Tigers and his entire rookie year in Denver with back injuries. He also missed all but the first nine games of the 2021-22 season with the Nuggets after another back issue required him to get another surgery.

However he's bounced back in the years since and played a career-high 81 games for the defending champions this season.

"We're human we carry our emotions and things that go on off of the court onto the court but I'm mentally tough, I've been through a lot through my whole career so you know it was another one of those things I had to play through," Porter said.